centuries. Oksywie is notable as the location of the Polish Naval Academy and one of the bases of the Polish Navy. It was also the namesake of ORP Oksywie. Both...

ORP Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko, formerly USS Wadsworth (FFG-9), is one of two Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigates in the Polish Navy. She...

ORP Generał Kazimierz Pułaski is one of two Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigates of the Polish Navy. Formerly serving in the United States...

boat ORP Hel (421) ORP Gdańsk (422) ORP Gdynia (423) ORP Kołobrzeg (424) ORP Szczecin (425) ORP Elbląg (426) ORP Puck (427) ORP Ustka (428) ORP Oksywie (429)...

auxiliary vessel ORP Nurek into the fleet of Poland on 1 November 1936. The ship was included in the floating equipment of the Gdynia-Oksywie Naval Port Command...

title ORP. From the spring of 1939, due to the tense political situation between Poland and Germany, Smok transported workshop equipment from Oksywie to...

Gdynia-Oksywie ORP 272 Generał Kazimierz Pułaski and ORP 273 Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko - Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates ORP 421 Orkan, ORP 422 Piorun...

ORP Kujawiak was a Polish A 56 type [pl] torpedo boat, served from 1921 to 1939; formerly the German A 68 from World War I, one of the first ships of...

Hel and Oksywie. Out of the destroyer flotilla, all but one were withdrawn to Great Britain during the Operation Peking. These included ORP Burza under...

of World War II, September 1, 1939, ORP Mazur, commanded by Lieutenant Tadeusz Rutkowski, was in a port of Oksywie. At 2 pm she was at a pier, preparing...

ORP Orzeł was an Orzeł class submarine of the Polish Navy that served during WWII. Orzeł was laid down 14 August 1936 at the Dutch shipyard De Schelde...

later that day the Luftwaffe sank the ORP Gryf, the ORP Wicher, as well as the ORP Mewa, the Polish gunboat ORP General Haller sustained heavy damage...

ORP Czapla was a Polish coastal minesweeper of the Jaskółka class, referred to as a mine layer according to the nomenclature used in the Navy of the Second...

beginning of World War II in September 1939, when the interned Polish submarine ORP Orzeł escaped from Tallinn, in neutral Estonia, to the United Kingdom. Joseph...

alongside the Royal Navy throughout the war (the ORP Burza and ORP Błyskawica survived the war, whereas the ORP Grom was sunk on 4 May 1940 in the Rombaken...

Pomerelia (Eastern Pomerania). In prehistoric times, it was the center of Oksywie culture; it was later populated by Slavs with some Baltic Prussian influences...

authorities. In June 1932, a crisis broke out when the Polish destroyer ORP Wicher was sent into Danzig harbour without the permission of the Senate...

ship ORP Gdynia is stationed at Plymouth; two of the destroyers, ORP Błyskawica and Burza form part of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla and the third ORP Garland...

together with new candidates, who were receiving temporary training in Oksywie, Gdynia, were sent back to Bydgoszcz. Supervisors of Naval Cadets' School...

(dzielnica) of the city of Gdynia. It borders the following districts: Oksywie, Obłuże, Pogórze (all three from the north), Chylonia, Leszczynki, Grabówek...

 Poland ORP Mazur – On the first day of World War II, 1 September, the Polish torpedo boat was sunk by a German air attack at the port of Oksywie. The ship...

the two guns formed the 13th coastal artillery battery was created at Oksywie to defend the approaches to the Port of Gdynia. In September 1939 the captain...

destroyers. The Marynarka ended up with the two French-built destroyers, ORP Wicher and the ORP Burza together with the French-built submarines Wilk, Żbik, and...

1939 Ship State Description ORP Mazur  Polish Navy World War II: The gunnery training vessel was bombed and sunk at Oksywie by Junkers Ju 87 aircraft of...

Germany with East Prussia and to defend Gdynia, Hel, Kępa Oksywska and Oksywie. The forces defending Gdynia were grouped under the Land Coastal Defence...

enclave of Westerplatte's tiny garrison capitulated on 7 September and the Oksywie garrison held until 19 September; the Hel Fortified Area was defended until...

Żuraw, Czapla - 6 small minesweepers. ORP Mewa, Jaskółka and Czapla were sunk by German bombers near Hel and Oksywie, others have been captured and salvaged...

September, Sęp, Ryś, and Żbik were at Hel, while Wilk and Orzel were in Oksywie. The Worek Plan was put into action with the German invasion of Poland...

measures of the workshop. The local museum is also moored at the port of ORP Fala patrol ship, built in 1964, after leaving the service transformed into...

Grodzisko in Sopot and Skansen in Wolin. There are also the Dar Pomorza, ORP Błyskawica and SS Sołdek museum ships. Several museums devoted to World War...